After seven seasons, NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” came to an end Tuesday night, giving the world a reason to ugly-cry as hard as if Li’l Sebastian had died all over again. (Don’t know who Lil Sebastian is? AKA you don’t watch “Parks and Rec?” What are you doing here!? Go binge!)

The conventional wisdom going into the 87th Academy Awards was that it would be a horse race between two quirky, experimental films: “Boyhood,” Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age drama that took 12 years to film, and “Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance”), a backstage show-business satire that director Alejandro González Iñárritu constructed to resemble one continuous take.

The day after the Oscars last year, the show’s producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron received a call from John Travolta apologizing for fumbling the name of singer Idina Menzel. Travolta’s mispronunciation — Adele Dazeem — had become a trending topic on Twitter, been shared endlessly on YouTube and Vine and helped enliven the most viewed Academy Awards telecast in more than a decade.

Jon Stewart, who pushed political comedy into a new realm with a show that relayed news by parodying the news, will leave “The Daily Show” later this year after 16 years at the helm, Comedy Central announced Tuesday night.

PASADENA, Calif. — All of the auditions have been completed for FOX’s 14th edition of “American Idol.” Now, the singers must impress this year’s panel of judges — Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban — to stay in the running for the crown.

CHICAGO — In Elaine Stritch’s self-revealing, one-woman show in 2002, penned in collaboration with the critic John Lahr and aptly titled “Elaine Stritch at Liberty,” the sharp-tongued Stritch described herself as “an existential problem in tights.”

It’s shaping up to be a rough patch of summer for the image of Naperville, Ill. First came news that the city is the fourth snobbiest mid-size town in America. Now reports have surfaced that suggest snakes are swarming over downtown.